Oil fields in northeast Syria are funding the Kurdish YPG militia and its enemy Islamic State, as both sides sell crude to local refiners who distill the oil in makeshift roadside kilns.

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... eastern Syria in spirit ... these claims ... the war that reaching a point between Islamic State in Kurdish YPG militia ... they're from the resource the bank rules each site ... crude oil ... this is Allie out ... pool village in the second province in Syria ... control of the second is split between Islamic State in the south and Kurds in the north ... each site controls oil fields within its territory ... Annie's follows a similar strategy to find itself ... selling crude oil in a steep discount ... to kill men refinery operators ... who then sell that you'll think reduced to black market traders ... men women and children ... bring thousands of committed MannKind's boiling the crude to distill it into gasoline and diesel ... I aam ... I ... the ... yet ... and in the ... the refined fuel cells for around forty dollars a barrel ... some of it is also sold a makeshift roadside gas stations which operate complete with automatic miles Winston Peters ... the Kurds produce about forty thousand barrels per day ... their enemies in the Islamic State ... produce an estimated fifty thousand ... oil is now the only state incumbents impoverished and communities ... the discount code supplied by the warring factions ... not only weapons and material ... but also you will see from the impoverished residents here trying to eke out a living ... and on race day ... you see it ... for The Wall Street Journal This ascent and ... in the second province series ...